WHITCOMB PUTS FOOT IN MOUTH - NO. 1.pdf

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WHITCOMB PUTS FOOT IN MOUTH

The following text of a recent Channel 7 Editorial is presented for your discernment. If you believe it is honest, fair, and public-safety minded, then don't smoke ganja. If you don't know whether it's accurate or dangerously misleading, then reserve your judgment on marihuana and the Coptics and talk to the FBI, Miami Beach Police, U.S. Dept. of Justice, I.R.S., FDCLE, all of Jamaica, and anyone among your family or friends who smoke. If your realize: neither Gene Strul, the News Editor, or Richard Whitcomb, whose mouth formed these words, has ever visited any Coptic at any time: the only reason the Coptics have ever been in conflict with the authorities has been over the Ganja, and the authorities are wrong: How much attention and therefore potential advertising profits Channel 7 would derive out of prompting some violent activity in the Miami area: then you will understand why a man would run into a crowded theater and yell fire --not to see the movie, but to satisfy his Satanic lusts at the expense of the innocent. The fire at Coptic is the one we use to light our pipe while we pray for peace and understnading.

May I now present part of the cause of the credibility gap, thanks to Channel 7. The best argument when you argue about religion is not to argue about it. But the question today is when does religion become not a religion when does it become a vehicle for crime? Law enforcement, including prosecuting agencies have been pussyfooting around a group called the Coptics.

which from what I have seen and heard on the Mark Londner reports for several days does nothing more than sit around and smoke pot. Now law enforcement is showing some interest. In my view it comes a little late. Particularly when children who have no influence over their own well being are in-volved. If this is to be universally accepted then every pothead in town every drug addict every narcotic pusher could justify their actions as areligious service to the community.

In the Coptics we have a so-called religious group that endangers the health of its children. This is enough for the state to in- tervene. Moreover the Coptics have no identifiable source of income. Yet there is unending source of marijuana. Which surely opens the legal door to probable cause that illegal activity may be involved. No one believes more than I do in the separation of church and state. But no one should be permitted to use religion as a shield to carry on unlawful, unhealthy and dangerous activities. If it is religious persecution to investigate and to put a stop to the mad practices of religious cults then we should also be willing to accept human sacrifice as a constitutional right.